Propositional

Word PROPOSITIONAL
Character 13
Hyphenation prop o si tion al
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Propositional"

What do we mean by propositional?

Relating to, or limited to, propositions.

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The word "propositional" in example sentences

Scotus calls the propositional formulations of pure possibilities ❋ Knuuttila, Simo (2008)

Scotus calls the propositional formulations of pure possibilities logical possibilities (possibile logicum). ❋ Knuuttila, Simo (2006)

Thus mediated through its own other (Rousseau), Hölderlin's voice establishes itself not in propositional form but, instead, motions toward a revelation that is itself perched between an unverifiable past and an anticipated future. ❋ Unknown (1999)

(The proof requirements in propositional calculus may be stricter; you may be able to derive “p” for “p and q” but not from “q and p” and so on. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Closely connected to belief is the notion of propositional content. ❋ Berto, Francesco (2009)

Frege demanded that what follows the the content stroke must have a content that can become a judgment, which is to say a propositional content. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The so-called propositional attitudes, like believing, knowing and hoping, are said to relate a thinker to a proposition, or at least to be instantiated by mental states that have propositional content. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And this is compatible with the idea of propositional content as splitting the totality of worlds. ❋ Priest, Graham (2008)

Dembski cannot deal properly with “specification” in a code because he dare not recognize that nothing indicates genetic information to be propositional, which is more or less what normal scientists would generally mean by “specified information”. ❋ Unknown (2006)

We will call the propositional logics (as defined below) simply logic systems. ❋ Jansana, Ramon (2006)

Reading most of the recent philosophical literature on imagery (and, it must be admitted, most of the broader cognitive science literature, especially textbooks) one might easily form the impression that quasi-pictures and "propositional" descriptions are the only possible theoretical models for imagery, or, at least, the only ones ever seriously proposed or considered. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Taking all pleasure to be a single special kind of propositional or de se (directly attributing a property to oneself) attitude, as in Feldman 1997c/1988, in all human and animal pleasure alike, also strains intuitive plausibility by requiring cognitive powers of propositional representation or self-reference even in young children and animals ❋ Katz, Leonard D. (2006)

Russell was committed to a special kind of propositional constituent called a "denoting concept", involved in descriptive and quantified propositions; (2) in 1903, Russell believed that there was such a complex, i.e., a proposition, consisting of a, b and ❋ Klement, Kevin (2005)

This epistemological problem coincides with the computational problem in the restrictive context of a representational formalism that is computationally decidable, such as propositional logic. ❋ Shanahan, Murray (2004)

Thus, not only did Principia introduce a wide range of philosophically rich notions (such as propositional function, logical construction, and type theory), it also set the stage for the discovery of classical metatheoretic results (such as those of Kurt Gödel and others) and initiated a tradition of common technical work in fields as diverse as philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, economics and computer science. ❋ Irvine, A. D. (2003)

Lenk starts by distinguishing "propositional" uses of actually, which contribute something to the content of the proposition being expressed, from "discourse marker" uses, which instead serve to indicate the relationship of the utterance to the surrounding discourse. ❋ Mark Liberman (2009)

If you are looking at understanding and connecting deep structure with propositional meaning, which, in turn, helps in understanding locutarionary only, meaning, then I think you do need to understand TG. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yet despite this biblical emphasis, Protestant theology has been mostly concerned with expressing doctrine in the form of propositional truths. ❋ Derek Flood (2011)

Mark LewinskiSwaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire• In 1967, when higher education was free for all those with the requisite A-levels, I undertook a first-year philosophy course at Leeds University in propositional and formal logic. ❋ Unknown (2011)

For Hayek, even the knowledge we do have is dispersed and fragmented, directly available only to scattered individuals rather than to society at large, its governmental representatives, or would-be social-scientific experts; and much of it is embodied in practice, habit, and "know how" which it is impossible to convey in explicit propositional form. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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